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Augean stables

noun

(Greek mythology) the extremely dirty stables that were finally cleaned by Hercules who diverted two rivers through them.

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"Augean stables" Quotes from Famous Books

... embodied it. He had established himself in the basement of a huge, dusky, dilapidated old house, in that long, tortuous, and preeminently Roman street which leads from the Corso to the Bridge of St. Angelo. The black archway which admitted you might have served as the portal of the Augean stables, but you emerged presently upon a mouldy little court, of which the fourth side was formed by a narrow terrace, overhanging the Tiber. Here, along the parapet, were stationed half a dozen shapeless fragments ...

— Roderick Hudson • Henry James

... that lay within my jurisdiction when I first took up mission work on the East Side." says a New York young woman, "was one to clean out which would have called for the best efforts of the renovator of the Augean stables. And the families in this tenement were almost as hopeless ...

— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers

Words linked to "Augean stables" : stalls, plural, plural form, horse barn, Greek mythology, stable